Silverton to be closed by FDIC rather than sold

The FDIC found buyers for Atlanta's failed bankers' bank, Silverton, but none of Silverton's suitors wanted to pay enough for it. After analyzing the offers, the FDIC decided it would be less costly to shut the bank down than to accept the bids received.

Bidders included the Carlyle Group with a consortium of private equity investors, including Lightyear Capital, Harvest Partners and Colony Capital. "We have to do what is least costly to our insurance fund and to shut it down for good was less costly than the bids we received," a spokesman for the FDIC told the Financial Times.